Whiting Awards

The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and has been presented since 1985. As of 2007, winners receive US$50,000.

The nominees are chosen through a juried process, and the final winners are selected by a committee of writers, scholars, and editors, selected each year by the Foundation. Writers can not apply for the prize themselves, and the Foundation does not accept unsolicited nominations.

Year	Recipients
2015	Anthony Carelli, poetry	Leopoldine Core, fiction	Aracelis Girmay, poetry	Lucas Hnath, drama	Jenny Johnson, poetry	Dan Josefson, fiction	Elena Passarello, nonfiction	Roger Reeves, poetry	Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, fiction	Anne Washburn, drama
2013	Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, fiction & nonfiction	Amanda Coplin, fiction	Jennifer duBois, fiction	Virginia Grise, playwright	Ishion Hutchinson, poetry	Morgan Meis, nonfiction	C.E. Morgan, fiction	Rowan Ricardo Phillips, poetry	Clifford Thompson, nonfiction	Stephanie Powell Watts, fiction
2012	Ciaran Berry, poetry	Danai Gurira, playwright	Alan Heathcock, fiction	Samuel D. Hunter, playwright	Mona Mansour, playwright	Anthony Marra, fiction	Meg Miroshnik, playwright	Hanna Pylväinen, fiction	Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, non-fiction	Atsuro Riley, poetry
2011	Scott Blackwood, fiction	Ryan Call, fiction	Don Mee Choi, poetry	Paul Clemens, nonfiction	Eduardo C. Corral, poetry	Amy Herzog, plays	Shane McCrae, poetry	Daniel Orozco, fiction	Teddy Wayne, fiction	Kerri Webster, poetry
2010	David Adjmi, plays	Elif Batuman, nonfiction	Michael Dahlie, fiction	Matt Donovan, poetry	Rattawut Lapcharoensap, fiction	Amy Leach, nonfiction	Lydia Peelle, fiction	Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, nonfiction	Jane Springer, poetry	L.B. Thompson, poetry
2009	Jericho Brown, poetry	Jay Hopler, poetry	Adam Johnson, fiction	Rajiv Joseph, plays	Joan Kane, poetry	Michael Meyer, nonfiction	Nami Mun, fiction	Hugh Raffles, nonfiction	Salvatore Scibona, fiction	Vu Tran, fiction
2008	Mischa Berlinski, fiction	Rick Hilles, poetry	Donovan Hohn, nonfiction	Douglas Kearney, poetry	Laleh Khadivi, fiction	Manuel Muñoz, fiction	Dael Orlandersmith, plays	Benjamin Percy, fiction	Julie Sheehan, poetry	Lysley Tenorio, fiction
2007	Sheila Callaghan, plays	Ben Fountain, fiction	Paul Guest, poetry	Brad Kessler, fiction	Cate Marvin, poetry	Tarell Alvin McCraney, plays	Carlo Rotella, nonfiction	Dalia Sofer, fiction	Peter Trachtenberg, nonfiction	Jack Turner, nonfiction
2006	Sherwin Bitsui, poetry	Charles D’Ambrosio, fiction	Stephen Adly Guirgis, plays	Tyehimba Jess, poetry	Suji Kwock Kim, poetry	Yiyun Li, fiction	Micheline Aharonian Marcom, fiction	Nina Marie Martínez, fiction	Bruce Norris, plays	Patrick O’Keeffe, fiction
2005	Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, fiction	Thomas Sayers Ellis, poetry	Nell Freudenberger, fiction	Rinne Groff, plays	Ilya Kaminsky, poetry	Seth Kantner, fiction	John Keene, fiction/poetry	Dana Levin, poetry	Spencer Reece, poetry	Tracy K. Smith, poetry
2004	Daniel Alarcon, fiction	Kirsten Bakis, fiction	Catherine Barnett, poetry	Dan Chiasson, poetry	Allison Glock, nonfiction	Elana Greenfield, plays	A. Van Jordan, poetry	Victor LaValle, fiction	John Jeremiah Sullivan, nonfiction	Tracey Scott Wilson, plays
2003	Courtney Angela Brkic, fiction and nonfiction	Alexander Chee, fiction	Christopher Cokinos, nonfiction	Trudy Dittmar, nonfiction	Major Jackson, poetry	Agymah Kamau, fiction	Ann Pancake, fiction	Lewis Robinson, fiction	Jess Row, fiction	Sarah Ruhl, plays
2002	Jeffery Renard Allen, fiction	Elizabeth Arnold, poetry	Justin Cronin, fiction	Kim Edwards, fiction	David Gewanter, poetry	Melissa James Gibson, plays	Michelle Huneven, fiction	Danzy Senna, fiction	Evan Smith, plays	Joshua Weiner, poetry
2001	Judy Blunt, nonfiction	Joel Brouwer, poetry	Emily Carter, fiction	Kathleen Finneran, nonfiction	Matthew Klam, fiction	Brighde Mullins, plays	Akhil Sharma, fiction	Jason Sommer, poetry	Samrat Upadhyay, fiction	John Wray, fiction
2000	Robert Cohen, fiction	Samantha Gillison, fiction	Andrew X. Pham, nonfiction	Lily King, fiction	John McManus, fiction	Albert Mobilio, poetry/fiction	James Thomas Stevens (Aronhiotas), poetry	Kelly Stuart, plays	Colson Whitehead, fiction	Claude Wilkinson, poetry
1999	Gordon Grice, nonfiction	Michael Haskell, poetry	Ehud Havazelet, fiction	Terrance Hayes, poetry	Naomi Iizuka, plays	Ben Marcus, fiction	Yxta Maya Murray, fiction	ZZ Packer, fiction	Margaret Talbot, nonfiction	Martha Zweig, poetry
1998	Michael Byers, fiction	Nancy Eimers, poetry	Daniel Hall, poetry	W. David Hancock, plays	James Kimbrell, poetry	Ralph Lombreglia, fiction/nonfiction	D. J. Waldie, nonfiction	Anthony Walton, nonfiction	Charles Harper Webb, poetry	Greg Williamson, poetry
1997	Jo Ann Beard, nonfiction	Connie Deanovich, poetry	Erik Ehn, plays	Forrest Gander, poetry	Jody Gladding, poetry	Suketu Mehta, fiction/nonfiction	Ellen Meloy, nonfiction	Josip Novakovich, fiction/ nonfiction	Melanie Rae Thon, fiction	Mark Turpin, poetry
1996	Anderson Ferrell, fiction	Cristina García, fiction	Molly Gloss, fiction	Brigit Pegeen Kelly, poetry	Brian Kiteley, fiction	Chris Offutt, fiction/nonfiction	Elizabeth Spires, poetry	Patricia Storace, nonfiction/ poetry	Judy Troy, fiction	A.J. Verdelle, fiction
1995	André Aciman, nonfiction	Michael Cunningham, fiction	Lucy Grealy, nonfiction/ poetry	Suzannah Lessard, nonfiction	Reginald McKnight, fiction	James McMichael, poetry	Mary Ruefle, poetry	Russ Rymer, nonfiction	Matthew Stadler, fiction	Melanie Sumner, fiction
1994	Mark Doty, poetry	Louis Edwards, fiction	Kennedy Fraser, nonfiction	Mary Hood, fiction	Randall Kenan, fiction/nonfiction	Wayne Koestenbaum, nonfiction/poetry	Rosemary Mahoney, nonfiction	Claudia Roth Pierpont, nonfiction	Mary Swander, poetry/nonfiction	Kate Wheeler, fiction
1993	Jeffrey Eugenides, fiction	Dagoberto Gilb, fiction	Kevin Kling, plays	Mark Levine, poetry	Nathaniel Mackey, poetry/fiction	Dionisio D. Martinez poetry	Sigrid Nunez, fiction	Janet Peery, fiction	Kathleen Peirce, poetry	Lisa Shea, fiction
1992	Roger Fanning, poetry	Eva Hoffman, nonfiction	R.S. Jones, fiction	J.S. Marcus, fiction	Jane Mead, poetry	Suzan-Lori Parks, plays	Katha Pollitt, poetry/nonfiction	Keith Reddin, plays	José Rivera, plays	Damien Wilkins, fiction
1991	Stanley Crouch, nonfiction	Rebecca Goldstein, fiction	Allegra Goodman, fiction	John Holman, fiction	Cynthia Kadohata, fiction	Scott McPherson, plays	Thylias Moss, poetry	Rick Rofihe, fiction	J Anton Shammas, fiction/nonfiction	Franz Wright, poetry
1990	Emily Hiestand, poetry	Tony Kushner, plays	Yannick Murphy, fiction	Lawrence Naumoff, fiction	Dennis Nurkse, poetry	Mark Richard, fiction	Harriet Ritvo, nonfiction	Christopher Tilghman, fiction	Amy Wilentz, nonfiction	Stephen Wright, fiction
1989	Ellen Akins, fiction	Russell Edson, poetry	Ian Frazier, nonfiction	Mary Karr, poetry	Natalie Kusz, nonfiction	Luc Sante, nonfiction	Timberlake Wertenbaker, plays	Marianne Wiggins, fiction	Tobias Wolff, nonfiction/fiction	C. D. Wright, poetry
1988	Michael Burkard, poetry	Lydia Davis, fiction	Bruce Duffy, fiction	Gerald Early, nonfiction	Jonathan Franzen, fiction	Mary La Chapelle, fiction	Li-Young Lee, poetry	Sylvia Moss, poetry	Geoffrey O'Brien, nonfiction	William T. Vollmann, fiction
1987	Mindy Aloff, nonfiction	Joan Chase, fiction	Mark Cox, poetry	Pam Durban, fiction	Gretel Ehrlich, nonfiction	Deborah Eisenberg, fiction	Alice McDermott, fiction	Reinaldo Povod, plays	Michael Ryan, poetry	David Foster Wallace, fiction
1986	John Ash, poetry	Hayden Carruth, poetry	Kent Haruf, fiction	Denis Johnson, fiction	Darryl Pinckney, nonfiction/fiction	Padgett Powell, fiction	Mona Simpson, fiction	Frank Stewart, poetry	Ruth Stone, poetry	August Wilson, plays
1985	Raymond Abbott, fiction	Douglas Crase, poetry	Stuart Dybek, fiction	Jorie Graham, poetry	Linda Gregg, poetry	Wright Morris, fiction/nonfiction	Howard Norman, fiction	James Robison, fiction	James Schuyler, poetry	Austin Wright, fiction/nonfiction

External links

• Recent Winners
• Award Recipients from 2015-1985